nexus-terminal

Nexus Terminal puts SSH, SFTP, RDP and VNC in a browser tab you host yourself. You get tabbed terminals, a drag-and-drop file manager, a Monaco editor for remote files, a small Docker container panel, and a suspend feature that keeps an SSH session running on the server when your laptop drops off Wi-Fi. It's free under GPL-3.0, has a Windows desktop build, and is a self-hosted take on Termius.

Setup is one docker compose up -d that starts four containers, including Apache Guacamole's guacd doing the RDP and VNC work. Put it behind Nginx with HTTPS, since terminal copy doesn't work over plain HTTP, and back up the data folder yourself because there's no built-in backup. The author only tests on Debian AMD64.

No paid tier, just a Ko-fi link. Solo: free. Small and larger teams: no. It's a single-admin app: setup creates one account and saved connections aren't scoped per user. Teams should look at Apache Guacamole, JumpServer or Teleport.

The catch: one developer writes nearly all of it, and no workflow in the repo builds the Docker images. You're trusting those images with every server credential you own, so turn on 2FA and the IP allowlist.